Table 4.
Relationship between caregivers' oral hygiene behavior and the hospitalization due to aspiration pneumonia.
| Variables | Terms | N | Yes (n = 55) |
None (n = 73) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Assist oral care | Yes | 117 | 51 (92.73) | 66 (90.41) | 0.643 |
| None | 11 | 4 (7.27) | 7 (9.59) | ||
| Times of oral care | 1 time | 72 | 33 (60.00) | 39 (53.42) | 0.458 |
| ≧2 times | 56 | 22 (40.00) | 34 (46.58) | ||
| Timing of oral care | After getting up | 75 | 46 (88.46) | 29 (45.31) | 0.001 |
| Before sleeping | 21 | 4 (7.69) | 17 (26.56) | ||
| After getting up and before sleeping | 20 | 2 (3.85) | 18 (28.13) | ||
| Tools of oral care | Sponge stick | 82 | 46 (82.14) | 36 (64.29) | 0.001 |
| Toothbrush | 30 | 10 (17.86) | 20 (35.71) |